Creation of new model project causes error:

An unexpected error occurred running the Create Workspace Preview VDB for "/Books" job.
An error creating the Preview VDB for model "/Books" occurred.
java.io.IOException: Unable to create temporary file

event details:
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException: Unable to create temporary file
at org.teiid.core.designer.CoreModelerPlugin.toRuntimeException(CoreModelerPlugin.java:76)
at org.teiid.core.designer.util.OperationUtil.perform(OperationUtil.java:50)
at org.teiid.designer.vdb.Vdb.save(Vdb.java:956)
at org.teiid.designer.runtime.preview.jobs.CreatePreviewVdbJob.runImpl(CreatePreviewVdbJob.java:186)
at org.teiid.designer.runtime.preview.jobs.WorkspacePreviewVdbJob.runInWorkspace(WorkspacePreviewVdbJob.java:129)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.InternalWorkspaceJob.run(InternalWorkspaceJob.java:38)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:53)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Unable to create temporary file
at java.io.File$TempDirectory.generateFile(File.java:1891)
at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1979)
at org.teiid.designer.vdb.Vdb$4.tryToDo(Vdb.java:972)
at org.teiid.core.designer.util.OperationUtil.perform(OperationUtil.java:40)
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